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At 08:41 26/06/2001 -0500, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: >Could be he simply knows something others don't >and is excited about it. Could be... Here is what I think: Total buy-in to XML makes perfect sense as the real lock-in potential is further up the food chain. I am seeing a worrying amount of glib "We use XML therefore ZZZ is an open, standards compliant system" from vendors. In a world where XML is the new ASCII, this is tantamount to saying (for example) "We use ASCII therefore RTF is an open, standards compliant system". Its not just Microsoft of course. I just use RTF as an illustrative example. I used to think that big guys would play embrace and extend with their XML parsers but this was very stupid of me. The only game in town is to fall over yourself in your efforts to conform to the W3C standards because a) the real money is further up the food chain and b) beaming about your standards compliance deflects attention from where the real action is. Sean
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